rec search #6: prostitution/rent-boy!Dean recs?
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Title: Through Those Cold Nights
Author/artist: yellow_pomelo
Possible tags: [setting: pre-series] [pairing: dean/castiel] sexual assault/abuse (non-con),physical assault/abuse
Reccer's comments: Although I read this a while ago, I remember that it was a refreshing take on a set of very familiar tropes. Dean hustles (pre-series) to take care of Sam; Castiel appears as the strange but noble knight-in-shining-trench-coat.
My original comments: I like especially the non-exploitative quality of the interactions here, and the believability of the setting. They work well together to craft a tiny little world that spins on its own. Lovely and poetic. ....The characterization sells it. [This is] a nice, poetic fic that breathes new life into some old tropes.
Link to fanwork: Here
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Author/artist: icanhazpie
Possible tags: genre:slash (gen slash? slashy gen?), pairing:dean/monster, pairing:dean/omc, loss of inhibition, pretty!dean, prostitution, psychological issues, secrets
Reccer's comments: I love this story in so many different ways. It's a total spoiler to rec it here, but it's so pwetty, I want to share it with the entire world. This is such a unique take on the hooker!Dean trope. It's chilling and breathtaking and hilarious at the same time.
Link to fanwork: Here
Title: Little Black Book
Author/artist: jeyhawk
Possible tags: het, slash, pairing:dean/cassie, pairing:dean/jo, pairing:dean/ofc, pairing:dean/omc, pairing:dean/sam, hospitaization, secrets
Reccer's comments: Hooker!Dean isn't really the focus of the story, but I like the way the theme is woven into the general plot of the story. Plus, who doesn't love Sam going through Dean's duffel and finding out unexpected things about his brother?
Link to fanwork: Here
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Title: Born Every Minute
Author/artist: apetslife
Possible tags: season 1, dean/omc, sam pov
Reccer's comments: The section in Sam's Politics Of Gender and Sexuality class had said that prostitution was damaging, scarring, universally harmful, a blight. To Sam's critical eye, Dean doesn't seem particularly scarred. This was the very first rentboy-Dean fic I bookmarked, way back in April 2006. It's perfectly short, with spot-on season 1-style dialogue.
Link to fanwork: http://petwritings.livejournal.com/2623.html
Title: Dean Winchester's Guide to Hitch-hiking
Author/artist: audrarose
Possible tags: pre-series, dean/omc, underage
Reccer's comments: Dean knows how to hitch a ride. Similar to a "Five Things" fic in structure, this is a collection of pre-series shorts. The third is a snapshot of a teenaged Dean: cocky and practical and horribly young. With her inexplicit writing, audrarose is very good at letting us piece together the (ugly) picture.
Link to fanwork: ... )
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Title: I wonder as I wander
Author/artist: fleshflutter
Possible tags: dean/omc, pre-series, john pov
Reccer's comments: The compass is a small, smooth silver thing. It has a pleasing weight in John's palm. Dean and Sam give John a conspicuously expensive present. Things go downhill from there. The Christmas setting gives this fic a particular sense of poignancy. It helps that fleshflutter has a knack for constructing simple, hard-hitting images: decorations on a potted palm, flickering fairylights like ambulance lights, etc etc.
Link to fanwork: http://fleshflutter.livejournal.com/21942.html
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